Received Wisdom, Kernels of Truth, and Boundary Conditions in Organizational Studies

Daniel J. Svyantek, Kevin T. Mahoney, Daniel J. Svyantek, Kevin T. Mahoney

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781623961893
  9781623961909
• eBook ISBN:
  9781623961916
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Management

This volume of the Research in Organizational Sciences is entitled "Received Wisdom, Kernels of Truth, and Boundary Conditions in Organizational Studies". Received wisdom is knowledge imparted to people by others and is based on authority and tenacity as sources of human knowledge. Authority refers to the acceptance of knowledge as truth because of the position and credibility of the knowledge source. Tenacity refers to the continued presentation of a particular bit of information by a source until this bit of information is accepted as true by receivers. The problem for organizational studies, however, is that this received wisdom often becomes unquestioned assumptions which guide interpretation of the world and decisions made about the world. Received wisdom, therefore, may lead to organizational practices which provide little or no benefit to the organization and, potentially, negative organizational effects, because this received wisdom is no longer valid. The 14 papers in this volume all, in some way, strive to question received wisdom and present alternatives which expand our understanding of organizational behavior in some way. The chapters in this volume each strive to present new ways of understanding organizational constructs, and in so doing reveal how received wisdom has often led to confirmation bias in organizational science. The knowledge that some perceived truths are actually the products of received wisdom and do not stand up to close scrutiny shakes up things within research areas previously thought settled allowing new perspectives on organizational science to emerge.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Received Wisdom, Kernels of Truth, and Boundary Conditions in Organizational Studies
• Received Wisdom, Kernels of Truth, and Boundary Conditions in Organizational Studies
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• 1: Received Wisdom, Kernels of Truth, and Boundary Conditions in Organizational Studies Developing Organizational Science Through Questions
• 2: Fear And Loathing At Work: A Savage Journey To The Heart Of Received Wisdom On Generational Differences
• 3: The Case of The Mondays: Examining Workplace Rumors About Stress
• 4: Do Management Scholars Mistakenly Believe in the Capacity of Self-Efficacy?
• 5: Abusive Supervision and The High-Impact Employee: Hurting our Most Valuable Resource
• 6: Supervisor Power X Subordinate Political Skill Interaction on Work Relationship Quality: Alternative Interaction Forms As A Function Of Dyadic Influence Dynamics
• 7: Managing Organizational Deviance: Focusing On Causes, Not Symptoms
• 8: Against All Evidence: General and Specific Ability in Human Resources Management
• 9: The Conceptual Versus Empirical Distinctiveness of Work Performance Constructs: The Impact of Work Performance Items
• 10: Keeping Women in Their Place?: The Joint Influence of Target Gender And Interpersonal Hierarchy Expectation on Contextual Performance Requirements
• 11: From Role Conflict to Evaluation Discordance: How Do Conflicting Performance Evaluations Affect Risk Taking In Multiple Audience Contexts?
• 12: Rethinking the Validity of Interviews for Employment Decision Making Implications of Recent Developments in Meta-Analysis
• 13: Meta-Analysis As Received Wisdom in the Organizational Sciences: Is It Meeting Its Intended Objectives?
• 14: The Commonality of Perceptual Error in the Evaluation of Interunit Interdependence: Implications for Dysfunctional Coordination
• 15: Received Wisdom, Groupthink, and Organizational Ethical Culture
• About the Authors